Is there anything cheaper than Stability AI API for image generation?
Stability AI API is about $2/1000 images per https://platform.stability.ai/pricing (Stable Diffusion v1.5, 512 by 512, 30 steps).
Dall-E is $18/1000 images per https://openai.com/pricing#language-models.
Midjourney's highest tier only offers 60 fast hours on GPU, so I'm not counting Midjourney as I'm looking for an API that gives a response < 5 seconds.
👤 xulres Accepted Answer ✓
A 4090 can be yours for only 50 cent per hour on vast or other gpu hosters. A 4090 can push 20 images per minute at 512x512 and 30 steps.